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I advice the update of your OS

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

then fs-uae will be at the last version available.

Amiga OS 4 needs a PPC card to run. This implies the installation of QEMU module, that you can find simply on fs-uae website, download page :

Conclusions / Limitations :

So well… I’ve been disapointed by those points :

1-speed :it’s usable, but try to launch a module under milkytracker and move a workbench window, the sound… cracks and isn’t fluid. From a general point of view, the system is slow, far from from what I wait of an Amiga OS.

2-impossible to share host folders : we can’t mount an host folder with QEMU… To share datas with outside world you must then get through an émulated Amiga OS 3 and write to a HDF that you mount after into Amiga OS 4. It’ a bit long and annoying.

3-memory limitations to PPC 128Meg and the imposibility to use FAST RAM extensions : this is limitating. Amiga OS 4 uses the half of it after launched. It lets only 64 Meg to work...

4-green screen : after booting my machine and making it autostart from power button, i get a green screen and have to cold reset the amiga to make it work. This does not do that when I launch fs-uae for the first time in the session. Maybe some QEMU strange stuff.

5-a very good way to discover but… My conclusion is that emulating Amiga OS 4 is a very good way to discover it because it’s genious OS, but… i’ll stay on my emulated OS Amiga OS 3.1 / 68060 / 8Meg Chip / 1Gig de Fast, which lets me launch Haujobb demos without problem.